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What started as an older man’s joke about wanting to adopt a five-year-old instead of starting from scratch, Instant Family was inspired by writer and director Sean Anders’ real-life family. Pete (Mark Wahlberg) “accidentally” makes the joke to his wife Ellie (Rose Byrne) not wanting to be become that “old dad” everyone knows and before you know it, the two are traveling down to road toward foster care adoptions. After numerous classes taught by two caseworkers (Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro), the two meet three kids at a “foster fair” gathering. Lizzy (Isabela Moner) is the 15-year-old older sister who has protectively looked after her younger siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz) while their mother has been incarcerated. She’s a tough cookie with trust issues. Juan is both accident prone and highly sensitive and Lita is super sweet as long as she gets to eat potato chips at every meal. Almost overnight they become an “instant family” and everything g…

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48th Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominees Announced

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Both Zach Williams and Lauren Daigle are leading the pack of nominations for the 48th Annual GMA Dove Awards which were announced earlier today. Williams and Daigle lead artist nominations with five, followed by Chris Tomlin, Crowder, Kirk Franklin and NEEDTOBREATHE with four nods each. Top nominated writer/producer Wayne Haun scored six nods, and Bernie Herms and David Garcia have five nods each.

“I’m thrilled to celebrate another year of Dove Awards nominations!” GMA President Jackie Patillo stated. “Our artists and creatives sacrifice year-round to share their sound with the world. Our theme this year is Sound the Remedy; we believe the message of Gospel and Christian music offers God’s remedy to the world.”

The GMA Dove Awards celebrate the contributions of artists from every style of Christian/Gospel music. Nominees are determined by over 1,500 professional members, and winners will be voted on by the entire GMA membership of nearly 2,500. This year’s awards show will take place on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at Lipscomb University’s in Nashville. Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) will exclusively air the awards show on Sunday, October 22.

Those in the running for awards this year include:Song of the Year:
“Chain Breaker”, “Come Alive (Dry Bones)”, “Even If”, “Eye Of The Storm”, “Feel Invincible”, “Great Are You Lord”, “King Of The World”, “O Come to The Altar”, “The Lion And The Lamb”, “Thy Will”, “What A Beautiful Name”

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MUSICOn September 19, Buzzfeed released an interview with Lisa Gungor promoting her book, The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen. Not only was the title of the video incorrect (“I Stopped Believing in God After Pastoring a Megachurch”) but the short film was edited in such a way as to lead fans to believe that she and her husband were no longer Christians. As expected, the video went viral and as of today has over 1,230,000 views. Concerned Christians, like myself, posted the video on our websites adding to the misinformation and for that I am sorry to add to the confusion.

On September 20, Lisa Gungor posted a correction to the video on Instagram, however, I did not know that it existed until today. In her post, Lisa explains what wasn’t said in the video. She says that she is still thankful that Buzzfeed did the story and even says that while the title bothered her, it apparently only bothered “a few” fans as well, which frankly, I feel is bothersome. Even so, I have to say that I’ve ne…

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In March 2016, I had the chance to meet Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Kira Lehtomaki who grew up in Edmonds, Washington, not far from my hometown. She was in town for a press tour promoting Zootopia for which she served as an animation supervisor for the character Judy Hopps. She’s one of those people who truly wished upon a star and saw her dream come true. At a very early age, Kira knew that she wanted to become an animator for Disney and today, she’s living that dream.

Recently, I caught up with Lehtomaki again to discuss her time working on Ralph Breaks the Internet (which comes to theaters on November 21) where she served as one of the heads of animation. Although she has previously worked on Bolt, Frozen, Tangled and the first Wreck-It Ralph movies, this was her first time serving as a co-head of animation alongside Renato Dos Anjos. Instead of supervising just one character, she and Renato oversaw the film’s entire animation team making sure that directors Ph…